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Why did the British Government decide to evacuate children from Britain’s major cities at the start of the Second World War? & Explain the differing reactions of people in Britain to the policy of evacuating children during the Second World War.
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History Coursework - Evacuation 1. Why did the British Government decide to evacuate children from Britain's major cities at the start of the Second World War? Operation Pied Piper, the evacuation of children from major British cities, began in September 1939, the very day that the Germans invaded Poland, before war was even declared, and preparation for it was undertaken well before the outbreak of any conflict. So why did the British Government feel it this necessary to split a child from their family at the outset of the war? During World War One, a new kind of war was developed. Britain was in fear of such a war reoccurring, but thought it was a real possibility because of Hitler's previous actions. He had broken the Munich agreement by invading the rest of Czechoslovakia and Poland. In WWI planes were used to drop explosives from the sky, and poisoned gas was first implemented....
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